Sentence examples for tenuous to be from inspiring English sources

And the link between actor and apologiser can become too tenuous to be sustained.

But there is an argument against the existence of something that can be called a community online, and it goes something like this: Real life relationships are too rich, and too tenuous, to be sustained virtually.

GNP networks, however, are too tenuous to be detected through conventional dynamic-mechanical spectroscopy in the melt state.

Our civil rights history is too important, too raw, and too tenuous to be ignored.

The δ13C from bones that experienced early diagenesis remains slightly more positive (e.g. G1B8), but this criterion is too tenuous to be reliable.

There's a tenuous connection to be made between Maxwell's endorsement of sexual chivalry and his commitment to frank musicality.

It turned out, then, that summer, that the moral barriers that I had supposed to exist between me and the dangers of a criminal career were so tenuous as to be nearly nonexistent.

In the developing plant the glebal cavities are separated by tramal plates so tenuous as to be overlooked by the uncritical worker.

In an email Jared wrote us, he says he's "exhausted his pool of supportive friends" and is now at the mercy of strangers who give a shit about the arts, which is a tenuous position to be in.

The Moon has an atmosphere so tenuous as to be nearly vacuum, with a total mass of less than 10 MT. The surface pressure of this small mass is around 3 × 10−15atm (0.3 nPa); it varies with the lunar day.

But it signifies a return to constitutional process after upheavals that showed how tenuous democracy continues to be in the Philippines.